Latest Intelligence from Vienna and Europe News
Saturday evening post reads reports from Vienna up to January 18 noting suspected Softa insurrection. An English transport Eveline wrecked and Crimea dated January 16 with severe frost. Prince Napoleon arrives in Marsglies and Duke of Cambridge stays. An imperial ukase orders twelve million silver roubles in assignats. Austria and Prussia dispute mobilization before the Federal Diet. A Franco‑British military convention may let a French army move into Lombardy and Austrian states. Spain fears insurrection as National Guard discontent grows. Espartero warns sternly to defend the constitution.
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Vienna
Constatinople
Crimea
Austria
Prussia
France
England
Lombardy
Danube
Spain
Mapaip
National Guard
Constituent Assembly
Cortes
Espartero
Corea
Despatches from the London Gazette on Sebastopol
War Department reports dated January 24 1855 include Field Marshal Lord Raglan’s note to the Duke of Newcastle from before Sebastopol dated January 6 1855. Describes bad weather hindering disembarkation of the 39th Regiment on the Golden Fleece near Balaklava, efforts to establish huts and provisioning depot, and casualty return up to January 4 1855.
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London
War Department
Duke of Newcastle
Lord
Regian
G.C.B
Sebastopol
Duke
Balaklava
Reinforcements for Crimea Arrive in Portsmouth
The Canadian hired screw transport carried 50 navvies and troops for the Crimea including Captains Newland and Turner with multiple regiments of Foot, Fusiliers, and Guards. The Great Britain to convey troops, a government contract for cavalry sabres and cutlasses for the navy was placed, with weapons to be heat tempered mild steel and tested before acceptance.
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Portsmouth
Crimea
Newland
1St Foot
Turner
7Th Fusiliers
Partridge
11Th Hussars
Ferguson
Atkinson
Grenadier Guards
Meurant
Preston
Verner
Perceval
Connaught Rangers
Dennis
95Th
Musgrove
Rifle Brigade
Ball
A Month's Laten News from Australia
The Indian, Chia and Australian despatches via overland mail arrive. Australia reports a gold supply decline and trade appears in a fragile state. The Gazette notes new despatches from Admiral Stirling about a November 25 expedition against pirates harming Hong Kong trade. Sir Henry George Ward is named successor to Sir George Anderson in the Ionian Islands administration.
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Australia
Overland Mail
Admiral Stirling
Hong Kong
Henry George Ward
G.C.M.G
The
Ionian Islands
Weekly Chronicle
George Anderson
K.C.B
Government of
Resignation of Lord John Russell and war conduct debate
In Parliament yesterday Lord John Russell announced his resignation over the Crimean war management and the War Office's handling. He read correspondence, defended his decision, and condemned the government's conduct as inadequate while urging reform and praising Lord Aberdeen's administration and Franco-British cooperation.
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John Russell
Earl of Apgnogen
J. Russell
Earley
House OF Commons
Tahen
Lord J. Tussell
Lord John Russell
Lord Aberdeen
Mr. Roebuck
Creaing
Crimea
Secree
Comémont
Executive Department
War Office
Lord Palmerston
Foreig
War Department
Palmers
J. ‘Russell
Commissariat Department
Sheffield
Alma
Inkerman
Balaklava
England
Mitch
Chesham-place
Roebuck
Jesty
J. Russgan
Windsor
Russia
Austria
France
Lord J. Russey
Home Secretary
Her
Mr Roebucks Motion on Crimean army inquiry
Mr Rozpucis moved for a Select Committee to probe the British force in the Crimea after reports that only about 14 000 of 54 000 were fit for duty. Government speakers defended administrators and questioned the usefulness of a formal inquiry. Debate adjourned to Monday.
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Rozpucis
Crimea
England
Mr. Roebuck
S. Henpert
Lord Raglan
Dream Mond
Nonrru
M. Milnes
Marquis of
Cabinet tensions stir over war leadership and inquiry
Report outlines clashes between Lord John Russell and the Cabinet on war conduct and a Roebuck inquiry. It notes Russell pressing for Palmerston to head the War Department, while ministers warn inquiry could harm. Aberdeen meets the Queen as Cabinet reshaping looms.
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Lord John Russell
Lord John
War Department
Roebuck
John Russell
Lord Palmerston
Tiverton
Earl of Aberdeen
Windsor
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Marsglies
Napoleon
Paris
Duke of Cambridge
Raglan
His Grace
the Duke of Newcastle
Parliament
House OF Lords
Earl of
Zims
Europe
the Ministry
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